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DEVELOPMENT OF AN ONLINE DATABASE FOR THE
INDIAN OCEAN TUNA COMMISSION (IOTC)
CONSERVATION AND MANAGEMENT MEASURES
This Inception Phase I also solved a major problem: the website on which the application should
be developed was not in a finalized and stable state. After several discussions, Maven has provided
a stable but not finalized version of the website and they have accepted to stop their
programming, of course with IOTC approval. This Phase I has length 10 working days instead of the
5 days previously expected in the Technical Offer, forcing the KE to perform the Phase II in 20 days
minus 5 days.
Phase II, Database development
The main activities during this Phase II were initially : (1) Create the database of all IOTC CMMs; (2)
Define a list of Keywords; (3) Make provisions for indexing the contents of CMM; (4) Populate the
database with IOTC CMM since 1998; (5) Interfaces integrated into the IOTC website.
It has been decided with IOTC, that they would benefit of a powerful but easy UI to create, edit,
delete any CMMs of the database directly in the Drupal back office. Therefore, the population the
database with IOTC CMMs shall be done by the IOTC itself. In the same idea, the list of Keywords
can be easily created, edited or deleted by the IOTC itself.
The main activities during this Phase II became : (1) Configuring Drupal and its modules; (2)
Developing the application (back office); (3) Creating the web pages for the users (front office); (4)
Designing the web pages for the users; (5) Delivering the application.
All those steps have been done without encountering any problems but two more days were used
to finalize the application. This Phase II has length 17 days instead of the 15 days foreseen.
The application has been delivered to the IOTC Technical Team on August 18, 2012.
This delivery was made of 2 main files (database and Drupal files backup) completed with all the
PDF documents written during the project: Editor Manual, UI Specifications, Technical
Documentation, Users login & password. Some bugs and issues have been identified and listed in
the “Technical Documentation”. They are related to Drupal contrib modules. They don’t have
much impact on the application stability but it will be necessary to update those modules as soon
as new stable version will be available online on Drupal.org.
Public users and IOTC team will have the opportunity to use this new CMM Database Application
as soon as Maven has finalized this new IOTC website.
Phase III , Manual development
This phase III was divided into three steps : (1) Implementation of the online help related to Drupal
fields; (2) Drupal management and updating manual draft (PDF); (3) 1 day training.
A 1-day training has been delivered on August 16, 2012 and organized into two parts: (1) In the
morning, relative to the Editors; (2) In the afternoon, relative to IOTC Administrators and Maven
Seychelles’ developers.
Phase IV, Reporting and Project closure
This document is about Phase IV.
Project Funded by the European Union
A project implemented by AGORA’2000
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